Medicines That Feed Us

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Plants, Healing, and Sovereignty in a Toxic World

Stacey A. Langwick

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English

Duke University Press
10 February 2026

Ethnic studies; Social & cultural anthropology; Complementary medicine; Traditional medicine & herbal remedies

Medicines That Feed Us examines the relationship between toxicity and remedy in the face of the intertwined health and environmental crises that are shaping life in the twenty-first century. Through ethnographic work with organizations that use plant-based healing and sustainable farming practices in Tanzania, Stacey A. Langwick asks what it means to heal in a toxic world. Expanding on the Kiswahili phrase dawa lishe, or medicines that feed us, Langwick describes the potency of plant medicines in therapeutic projects that address bodies and environments together. These efforts challenge biomedicine’s intense focus on the internal dynamics of biological bodies and its externalization of the modern agricultural, industrial, and land management practices that impact it. Dawa lishe is not a call to return to the traditional, but an invitation to join contemporary experiments in how we know, use, and govern therapeutic plants. Medicines That Feed Us offers alternative ways of living and dying, growing and decaying, composing and decomposing which acknowledge the interdependence of bodily and ecological health.

By: Stacey A. Langwick
Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 413g
ISBN: 9781478033226
ISBN 10: 1478033223
Pages: 306
Publication Date: 10 February 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stacey A. Langwick is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University, author of Bodies, Politics, and African Healing: The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania, and co-editor of Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing.

Reviews for Medicines That Feed Us: Plants, Healing, and Sovereignty in a Toxic World

“With this beautiful, nuanced ethnography, Stacey Langwick has produced a landmark study of African healing. Medicines that Feed Us takes readers through a set of experiments with plants by which Tanzanians theorize healing through practice in a toxic world. In refusing the false divides between body and environment or medicine and food, this brilliant new book places the deep insights of African theory at the center of how to reckon with toxicity.”—Julie Livingston, author of Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa